1. In 457, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, passed away.

2. In 557, Yuwen Jue established the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

3. In 1463, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, died.

4. In 1564, Galileo Galilei, an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, was born.

5. In 1682, Gu Yanwu, a famous thinker in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, passed away.

6. In 1820, Susan B. Anthony, an American suffragist, was born in Adams, Massachusetts.

7. In 1823, Li Hongzhang, an advocate of the Westernization Movement, was born.

8. In 1835, Michael Faraday, a British physicist and chemist, was born.

9. In 1857, Mikhail Glinka, a Russian musician, passed away.

10. In 1879, President Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

11. In 1893, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was born.

12. In 1898, the US battleship "Maine" mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members.

13. In 1904, Huang Xing organized and established the Huaxinghui in Changsha, Hunan.

14. In 1912, Yuan Shikai was elected interim president.

15. In 1913, the Chinese character phonetic alphabet was born.

16. In 1918, Edgar Degas, a famous French painter, passed away.

17. In 1928, the "New Oxford English Dictionary" which took 70 years to complete was finished.

18. In 1931, Wei Mengxian, a Communist Party member, successfully instigated a mutiny of some soldiers in the 46th Division of the Kuomintang in Liu'an City, Anhui.

19. In 1933, President-elect Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami.

20. In 1935, the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army issued a declaration of unified organization.

21. In 1942, the British colony Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.

22. In 1946, the world's first electronic computer came out.

23. In 1948, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Key Points of Land Reform in the New Liberated Areas".

24. In 1952, King George VI of the United Kingdom was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

25. In 1961, a Belgian Airlines Boeing 707 jet crashed near Brussels Airport.

26. In 1965, Canada's new maple-leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.

27. In 1972, Edgar Snow, an American friend of the Chinese people, passed away.

28. In 1982, 84 men were killed when the "Ocean Ranger" oil-drilling rig sank off the coast of Newfoundland.

29. In 1983, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Notice on Several Issues Concerning the Institutional Reform of the Party and Government Organs in Prefectures, Cities and Prefectures".

30. In 1985, China's first Antarctic research station, Great Wall Station, was completed on King George Island in Antarctica.

31. In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan.

32. In 1992, Benjamin L. Hooks announced plans to retire as executive director of the NAACP.

33. In 1996, the Long March 3B carrier rocket failed in its first launch.

34. In 2001, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States were carried out by Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

35. In 2013, a meteorite fell in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, injuring more than 2,000 people.

36. In 1764, the city of St. Louis was established.

37. In 1764, the first newspaper in New York City, the "New York Gazette", was founded.

38. In 1898, the United States occupied the Philippines.

39. In 1913, China participated in the first Far East Games held in Manila, the Philippines.

40. In 1937, many people inside and outside the Kuomintang called on Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unite with the Communist Party to resist Japan.

41. In 1961, China conducted a joint exercise of the army, navy and air force in the Taiwan Strait.

42. In 269, February 14th was designated as Valentine's Day in memory of Valentine's sacrifice for love.

43. In 647, Gao Shilian, a court official in the Tang Dynasty, passed away.

44. In 1779, British navigator James Cook died.

45. In 1875, Bell was granted a patent for the telephone.

46. In 1946, the world's first computer was born.

47. In 1962, Hu Zongnan, a first-class general in the Republic of China Army, passed away.

48. In 1963, the National Art Museum of China was completed.

49. In 1972, China established diplomatic relations with Mexico.

50. In 2003, Dolly the cloned sheep was euthanized.